woodrow wilson was like that, he had severe depression. so, he met this vivacious woman. he really loved vivacious inactive women. and active women. edith was cultured but did not have a lot of weight. wilson loved women with wit. they were intellectual equals. ellen would have women over to the house to banter. he asks edith to marry her with in the first year. she says, "your wife just died. absolutely not." he continues and start sending her love letters. this was the texting, if you will, of the time. -- a number a very of very salacious love letters. he keeps having her picked up and they go for drives. he literally, at one point, goes to bed, because she says no to him. scholars differ on this, wilson went to bermuda three times and it was curious that he never took his wife. when i was reading about him, i wondered why he didn't take his wife. his wife told him he needed to go to bermuda and relax. mark twain was there, other bohemian types. and mary pack was there. she did not care about her husband, she was a flapper, and very witty, and wilson was smitten with he

when woodrow wilson suffered a stroke in 1919, it was edith who guarded access to the recovering president. the wilson house in washington, d.c. hosted this hour-long event. >> welcome everyone to the woodrow wilson house. i am the interim director. before we get started, i would like to point out the portrait on the wall. that is the lady we will be talking about tonight. it is fitting we are here because her birthday was a few days ago. we are indebted to edith wilson for her forethought. without her generosity, the wilson house would not exist. she is a woman who saved everything, collected and donated it to the national trust in the 1960's. as with much of women's history, her story is generally relegated to second tier when talking about her husband, so it is a pleasure tonight to have william hazlegrove here to share his thoughts on her contributions to history. his new book is a look at her role after wilson suffered his stroke. this is just one of 13 of his books. books will be available to purchase and i'm sure he would be happy to sign them. please be sure to connect with us thro

at one point it back all of the way up to the woodrow wilson bridge. they haven't closed up opening the garage half of an hour early in order to get some of the cars off the road and into the garage. both exits on the beltway were closed until around 2:00 this morning. the other thing that we noticed as we were circling is that for a time, until about 5:45, that 5000 garage was still full. but we know that things have opened up. now, hopefully with some winnings. traffic is flowing smoothly now back on the beltway on the inner and outer loop we should let you know that there are a number of ways you can find out what the traffic is looking like heading into the national harbor and the mgm grand. specifically prince george's county has set up text alerts. reporting live, suzanne autria: hillary clinton, calling fake news and epidemic that should concern everyone. a man went into the, ping-pong after reading a fake news report saying that the restaurant was the site of the sex trafficking ring led by clinton himself -- or so. clinton said that these fake

the first was in the progressive era 100 years ago woodrow wilson who was a political scientist before he was president, a theory about giving america a new style administrative state. the biggest thrust came with the new deal with fdr after the great depression and periodically a reaction after increases in governmental power, americans have second thoughts and usually there's a conservative reaction is the next was the great society in the 1960s with lyndon johnson and the obama administration brought in the fourth wave, the affordable care act and the dodd-frank act are these monuments, qualitatively a new step in the development of an american states. >> how has this affected you and i and everyone else? >> usually don't meet a bureaucrat face-to-face. >> everything you do in life is affected by rules these people make, anything that involves your healthcare now is increasingly dictated by health and human services to apply for a job there are all kinds of requirements and regulations and employers especially have to comply with all kinds of red tape. compliance costs of satisfying

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this video shows some of the violence at woodrow wilson high school in camden. a parent said her child was beaten because he didn't speak english well. and tonight the school held a closed door meeting. nbc 10's brandon hudson reports. >> reporter: our nbc 10 camera wasn't allowed inside of the high school for the meeting but it was to discuss the numerous fights going on on campus, including some at this park across the street. this cell phone video shared with nbc 10 is one of the reasons frustrated parents want security changes at woodrow wilson high school. one of the students getting punched several time is janet rivera's 15-year-old son. we spoke to her through a translator. >> he was punched so hard that he lost consciousness for about an hour. >> reporter: here are photos of the aftermath. bruises and cuts over the student's eye. parents say the fights are common. >> kids that don't speak english well are targeted. >> that is correct. >> it led to a letter sent from the principal to parents who met with school staff and camden county police. the school d

the first was in the progressive era 100 years ago woodrow wilson who was a political scientist before he was president, a theory about giving america a new style administrative state. the biggest thrust came with the new deal with fdr after the great depression and periodically a reaction after increases in governmental power, americans have second thoughts and usually there's a conservative reaction is the next was the great society in the 1960s with lyndon johnson and the obama administration brought in the fourth wave, the affordable care act and the dodd-frank act are these monuments, qualitatively a new step in the development of an american states. >> how has this affected you and i and everyone else? >> usually don't meet a bureaucrat face-to-face. >> everything you do in life is affected by rules these people make, anything that involves your healthcare now is increasingly dictated by health and human services to apply for a job there are all kinds of requirements and regulations and employers especially have to comply with all kinds of red tape. compliance costs of satisfying

in 1938, he published a book called "the ordeal of woodrow wilson," an account of wilson's diplomatic struggles in paris and hoover's concurrent battles as a relief administrator. eisenhower'sr, at invitation, hoover represented the united states at the brussels world fair. there, the people of belgium honored the man who had saved so many of their lives during the ordeal of 1914-1918. he reflected on the crb's historical significance. it brought -- it pioneered the methods of relief a great famines and developed a system for maintenance and rehabilitation of children during war and upheavals. 1959 and 1964, as hoover , heed the age of 90 published a four volume history of the stupendous american led enterprises and compassion, as he called them, that had brought food relief to scores of millions of people after world war i and world war ii. he entitled this narrative "an american epic." he wanted the american people to know the full, magnificent truth about their great humanitarian achievements in the 20th century. he feared, that was being lost to history. 100 years after world war

and president woodrow wilson. and later a tour of the ellis island immigration museum. and the history of african-americans in congress. american artifacts, 8:00 p.m. eastern, here on c-span 3. >> friday night on c-span, senate tributes and farewell speeches. we have tributes to outgoing senate democratic leader harry reid, remarks from senator box earn kelly ayotte. senator reid's tribute to president obama and later senator dan koet on his career. senate tributes

a scott berg on his biography of president woodrow wilson.van thomas talks about his book "being nixon, a man divided" and thomas miller on his investigation into the assassination of president william mckinley. watch these any time or search our entire video library at c-span.org. >> next your calls and comments live on "washington journal." the members of the electoral college need today and vote by ballot for president and vice president beginning at 11:00 a.m. eastern we have coverage from illinois, michigan, and virginia. >> tonight on the communicators. >> if we have to strike to regulations, which can be done, we would have a much more effective and efficient agency and more opportunities for providers to serve consumers. >> michael o'rielly, fcc commissioner, talks about how it may change under the trunk administration. >> there is a lot of concern about cyber security right now. there has been for a while. there has been attention right now with what happened during the campaign. does the fcc have a role in that? >> i think that is a

woodrow wilson, a political scientist before he was president, giving america a new style, administrative state. the big egest was probably afte the new deal, after the great depression. and after the great increases in governmental power, americans have second thoughts and usually there's a conservative reaction. the great society in the 1960's with lyndon johnson and the obama administration brought in the fourth one, the affordable care act and dodd-frank, they're qualitatively a new step on american state, the way that the europeans have had a state for much longer. >> so, professor moreno, how has this affected you and i? >> people usually don't meet a bureaucrat face-to-face, a frale bureaucrat especially, but everything that you do in life, practically, is affected by rules that the people make, anything that involves your health care now is increasingly dictated by health and human services. if you want to apply for a job, there are all kinds of requirements and regulations that are-- and employers, especially, have to comply with all kinds of red tape. the compliance costs of sat

woodrow wilson was a political scientist and he had an administrative state. the biggest thrust came with the depression. there's usually conservative reaction. the next was a great society in the 60s with lyndon johnson. and the obama administration has brought in the fourth wave, the affordable care act and the dodd frank act are monuments, qualitatively a new step in the development of an american state. >> host: so how has this affected you and i and anyone else on an individual basis? >> people usually don't need a bureaucrat face-to-face. but everything you do in life practically is affected by rules that these people make. anything that of ulster healthcare now is increasingly dictated by the department of health and human services. if you want to apply for a job there is requirements and regulations. an employer's especially have to comply with red tape. the compliance costs of satisfying federal regulators are growing. education, schools are increasingly which. they used to be the institution where americans govern themselves in the school houses and

takes any hostile steps. >>> we're joined may global fellow at the woodrow wilson center.ou for being with us. more specifically, what kind of actions could we be looking at here when it comes to retaliation against russia? >> well, i think pabasically wod be three. one is sanctions we expect, and you would expect that would be one thing. number two would be some type of diplomatic action, and number three would be the covert action, and the covert action we might not even know that the united states is taking some action. they can do it without warning. the president has said previously that he would do it in his own time. but those are the three, and from what we understand, it also could include naming the people who are responsible for what the united states alleges is a disinformation project, really, by russia, using those hacks, using any information that it had gleaned from the hacks in order to put fear in the elections in what they're calling disinformation. it's serious and the russians wasted no time even before getting an official announcement to say we're not

. >> this is the first time in what a hundred years since woodrow wilson that a president is in a statealking behind the scenes about setting up a shadow government. staying there in talking from the sidelines is pretty unprecedented. >> it depends on how much talking he does. when woodrow wilson stayed in washington and he had a truck terrible stroke which affected the late months of his presidency i don't understand why president obama wants to stay in washington. i have lived here my whole life and i wish i could leave. >> i would go with the best opportunity is. and where they consider home to be. we have seen we've seen people start out like the clintons in arkansas and then moved to new york. david: here is donald trump. [indiscernible] the camera has gone off of the famous doorway in which and out of which we've seen a lot of trump future aids go. and then he closed the door. that's all we know right now but we are still awaiting the economic news. it's going to be big. galaxy is still mourning the death of actor carrie fisher. we will tell you more coming up. david: carrie fishe

the exit ramp is closeder in the woodrow wilson service area. more updates in ten? well ole somehow you thought they pulls out and 'high speed gis -- spade helped investigators get think man. . >>> quarter after 6:00 right now on this wednesday. you're taking a live lock at downtown doylestown in bucks county where it's 38 degrees outside. meteorologist bill henly tells me a bit misty out there and it's not raining and the rain is pushed out. he'll be back in minute with your neighborhood forecast. >>> now to the presidential transition. >> president-elect donald trump has officially announced his nominee for secretary of defense. last night the president-elect introduced general james mattis known as mad dog to a crowd in fayetteville, north carolina. he was there as part of the president-elect's thank-you tour for his supporters. donald trump praised matis and talked about their plans for the future. >> under his leadership such an important position, we will rebuild our military and alliances, destroy terrorists and face our enemies head-on and make america safe

the president woodrow wilson house in washington, d.c. hosted this hour-long event. >> welcome everyone to the woodrow wilson house. i am thrilled to see you here. i am the interim director. before we get started, i would like to point out the portrait on the wall. that is the lady we will be talking about tonight. it is fitting we are here because her birthday was a few days ago. we are indebted to edith wilson for her forethought. without her generosity, the wilson house would not exist. she is a woman who saved everything, collected and donated it to the national trust

there is a historical marker when you go there -- woodrow wilson attended davidson for one year.rian: what your kids think of this history stuff? mr. strauss: they pretend not to be like me, but i know that the loves thee especially nuances of history and almost mostly history, although indian test the country of india -- history. about out of time, but what are the chances i could get hamilton?te a book on character? favorite mr. strauss: i think it has got to be harriet lane. the knees of the president i never knew about who was -- the niece of the president who is one of the most popular women in washington for half a century. she would make a good musical. brian: robert strauss is our guest. the book is called "worst. president. ever.: james buchanan, the potus rating game, and the legacy of the least of the lesser presidents." james buchanan on the cover their. thank you very much for joining us. mr. strauss: thanks for having me. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its

ranch, and at 8, author of madam presidency, the secret presidency of edith wilson, who was woodrow wilson's wife, she buffered his presidency as he recovered from a stroke. for more, go to c-span.org. >>> military force is one of the things that i think the american public gets impatient about it because they really believe they have this trump card, this great military that can defeat anyone. but it's not true. it is an extraordinary military and very powerful but it can only win in certain situations. and it can only really destroy things. it can't build a new order in its place. >> sunday night on question and answer, journalist and professor mark danner talks about his career and the challenges facing the u.s. war on terrorism. >> what we don't want to do is respond in such a way that will produce more of these militants, more of these militant organizations. they want us to overreact. they want us to occupy muslim countries so they can build their recruitment. they want us to torture people. they want us to do things that is going to allow them to make their case against us. >> sunday

he was planning to leave -- >> when you say the woodrow wilson award from the wilson center which you -- >> which i now head. >> you are in charge of. >> yes. right. >> why did you give him that wilson award? >> we give awards to an outstanding public servant and an outstanding business person. he got the business person award in texas where we've held numerous awards ceremonies. jim baker got the person award and bill craven just got it, the former head of the -- the guy in charge of special forces that took down osama bin laden. >> he received an award from putin and the russians as well. are you at all concerned about those close ties? >> let me say this. he is intending to resign to retire next year. i think he will have to divest himself of his exxon holdings. there is no question about that. and other cabinet secretaries will. then comes the contrast with the president and the first family. and that's going to be a dicey thing. i think, as this plays out, the trumps will have to reconsider the position they're taking right now. >> do you think he's going to be a good secretary o

they're on the woodrow wilson bridge. the work zone is still blocking the left lane sometimes shutting things down, but you're going have to stay to the right to get by if you're headed out that way and going to the local lanes. see you in ten minutes. >> thank you. it is 4:33. we're learning more about all of the people who died in that terrible warehouse officials are considering possible murder or possible manslaughter charges after 36 people died. you're looking at new video of the overnight vigil for the victims. investigators have identified 22 of the people including a 17-year-old. they're planning on having a news conference for 9:00 this morning. >> traffic is moving by the verizon center after crews had police had to shut down that road in both directions between e and h streets as a precaution. >>> speaking of rush hour traffic messes. look at this, a nasty crash in rockville. it had traffic backed up. it was between falls road and 428. this happened around 6:30. montgomery county fire & rescue says two cars sl

officials allowed people to park and as we showed you with chopper 4 the woodrow wilson bridge has massive back ups right now. gridlock. people are still coming here. and we'll just have to see how this all pans out into the night. live here, oxen hill, shomari stone, news4. >> one of our producers called it black friday for gamblers. mgm promises the national harbor property is as much resort as casino. the right now there are 15 luxury retail outlets and restaurants for every taste and budget. one of the stores is owned by actress sarah jessica parker who has been there all day. it promises the state-of-the-art stage experience. and there are a variety of restaurant manned by famous chefs. >> this is the way i will do seafood. virginia seafood prepared this way. >> there is also a spa that makes it a full service resort. >> mgm is expecting up to 30,000 guests in just these first 24 hours. even if you are not one of them it could have a big impact on your drive to work tomorrow. first 4 traffic is going to have you covered first thing tomorrow. see how the routes are holding up with all

armed forces laid a wreath at the tomb of woodrow wilson in honor of what would be his 160th birthday today. the 28th president's grave site is located on main floor of the national cathedral here in northwest. >> president wilson was very important figure in our history, you know, led us into the first world war and then had a real vision for what the world might look like coming out of world war i and how he tried to shape a lasting peace which obviously didn't last, but he really tried hard to shape a lasting peace. >> now wilson's legacy has been recently. this year, princeton university announced it would remove his mural from a dining hall following student protests. wilson, as you may know, supported racial segregation and removed black federal government employees from office back in 1913. >>> if you're looking for something to do with the family on new year's day, we have an easy, free idea for you. take everyone to one of virginia's 37 state parks. admission won't cost you a thing. plus, if you take a family picture and most it on the virginia state park facebook page before

so take woodrow wilson. september 1919, world war i had just ended. he had met with european leaders whose countries had suffered such devastating losses in that unprecedented world war. european leaders agreed with him that there needed to be some kind of international body, some kind of international group to try to stop future conflicts before they turned into world wars again. but wilson had a problem. however much world leaders liked his idea about some new international body, at home he couldn't get anybody behind it. after world war i, congress wanted less to do with the rest of the world, not more. they were just superclear with him that even though he was the president and he had this league of nations idea, they were not going along with him on this issue. congress didn't like it. president wilson said, okay, then, fine, congress, you don't like it. i'll convince the people. i'll get them on my side. he set out on a tour in september of that year, 1919, he started a tour and his tour went 8,000 miles in 22 days. and that's one thing if you'r

. >> this weekend, on the presidency, author william hazel after president woodrow wilson suffered ae. here is a preview. >> i like to draw the analogy of a family overwhelmed. you have a lot of kids, the dog is barking, the house is a mess. such is the best that you can. the white house has closed down. the kids were locked, the curtain had pulled. traffic was diverted away. edith is taking correspondence. remember, we are in the age when there was no internet, no fax, people wrote letters back and forth between departments. all of this correspondence come in and nobody is doing with it. what started to happen was the pile of nonessential letters grew. there were tons of letters never opened. saying i will deal with this. i will do with this. the with this but not this. it was really access. she would go to the president and ask him what you think of this. if he could respond, he would respond and give an opinion. but she did start. she would meet with the cabinet members. she would conduct business there. upon the type to be made. bills had to be acted on or not. in the book, it is

according to national harbor travel and then we also see here there is a massive backup on the woodrow wilson bridge from virginia into the national harbor. we knew this was going to be a complicated night. with all of the peop he gets a lot of compliments. he wears his army hat, walks around with his army shirt looking all nice. and then people just say, ?thank you for serving our country? and i'm like, that's my dad. male vo: no one deserves a warmer welcome home. that's why we're hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. captioning sponsored by cbs >> it's time for the "late show"'s top albums of 2016. number 25, car seat headrest, teens of denial. a strong showing from the indie-rockers. number 24, kanye west, the life of pablo, an experimental masterpiece. number 23, frank ocean, blonde. a dreamy abstract record. and the album karen and i used to listen to before we broke up. here are the top things about karen in 2016. number 25, her smile. number 24, the way her hair smelled. number 23, the way shield throw her head back when she laughed. if karen would give m

authorities had to briefly shut down exits from the beltway to clear traffic extending across the woodrow wilson bridge. so busy that twice since opening the facility reached capacity and visitors had to be turned away. in the closest neighborhoods to national harbor this sub divisions talk about the impact were traffic has spilled over. >> at night, 10:00 at 11:00, the traffic was backed up the lower! >> i'm glad the casino is in e in force, 195 officers working over three shifts continuously with a focus on keeping traffic moving. the modernistic parking garages can hold 5000 vehicles but there are 16,000 more spaces available at the nearby national harbor development with shuttle buses running to the casinos every 20 minutes from 11:00 a emmett till 4:00 a.m. the following day. tonight we're not seeing the big traffic jams and things have calmed down somewhat. thursday night brings the next test, a big night at the casino. boys to men debuting and opening up the theater so the casino was likely to be full and so will the theater and that will add extra people. we will see how it works out. sc

the woodrow wilson incident with the flu. i also talk about george w. bush who was my boss. i do not think you could fairly put together a list of worst presidential responses to disaster and not include the bush response to katrina. that was a very difficult situation that did not go well, and president bush said in his memoirs a were not as successful as they wanted to be. i do not think it is a partisan thing. i think there are presidents of both parties that have been met with disaster and left wanting, but others who stepped up and did the job. when i find -- and this is very interesting -- these external en ds from the outside, and they often lead to tripping up the president or sometimes provide opportunities for the president to shine, but i would not say allow them to happen. what do you do when this bad thing happens? a famous picture of george w. bush atop the rubble in 2001, three days after 9/11. , why wasis approach his approach to katrina different where he seemed to really take command after 9/11? guest: i mentioned i put him on the worst list when it comes t

they're heavier down inown i southern maryland.southern maryn inner loop here approaching the woodrow wilsonidge but then youhu hit it again on the brakes the a here very heavy inner loopp approaching looks like route 50 there in northern virginia.li those are our two really heavyea spots on the beltway.tway. 295 southbound we had an an earlier crash south of benning n road that has been cleared butab you're still seeing heavyg h delays benning road through t pennsylvania avenue there on o 295 southbound.thboun let's zoom into northernom inton virginia here. this is just commuter volumer vm 95 northbound dale city to thett beltway.y. you're looking at those on andsd off slow spots. yof u breslak up a little bit at you hit the bel then you're tapping the brakes a yet again 395 northbound fromthm the beltway to the 14th streettt bridge you're seeing that modhem precipitately heavy volume. finally 66 eastbound those tho delays continue to build as you've got a slow rideontinu frf 234 to 28 and that looks likesik even extending past that t breaks up a little bit up a li approaching the beltway.c

if you were an aid to woodrow wilson before world war i and e said mark, what should i do, what would you have told him? mark: that's a wonderful uestion. >> i wish i would have said, though it doesn't seem so at the moment the interest of the american people are directly involved on what happens in europe and the united states will have the greatest degree of leverage at the beginning before things get very bad and we should intervene and very much against our interest to have a combrinding, terrible ar on the continent. and the best way to stay out is o prevent this conflict. i fear we would not have had the perceptiveness. at the beginning of those wars i was firmly against the united intervening and didn't engage our national interest which is pretty much what wilson thought when he became president. the great challenge of a statesman is to be far seeing enough to see the country's interest at a time we can be sponsibly supported with a minimum amount of expenditure, blood and treasure. wilson was not in that position. his aids didn't tell him that clearly at the beginning of the

the turnpike northbound just around 195 and the exit ramp near the woodrow wilson is blocked until further notice. 76 eastbound just around 130 and the left shoulder closed there with an accident scene. vai and rosemary, back to you. >> a million didary mistake an here how an ocean county couple could the a whole lot rich after getting a lottery ticket they didn't even want. >>> see how a little boy enlisted santa to make the holidays a little bit better for complete strangers. >>> a quarter of 6:00 this morning. new jersey lawmakers plan to hold two more hearings on rail safety in the wake of the deadly train crash in hoboken. a joint legislative committee heard from amtrak and nj transit officials at a hearing yesterday at the statehouse in trenton and talked about the problems and plusses of implementing positive train control. that technology can automatically slow or stop a train to avoid an accident. it's already used in cities across the country including right here in philadelphia. >> and the push for positive train control or ptc has intensified since a new jersey train crash back

epidemic --ce influenza epidemic of 1918, and you write about then-president woodrow wilson. you point out that if there were half the people died from the flu. 43,000 died from the flu. attemptt wilson, in his wrote thee war, sedition act of 1918 which forbade abusive language about the form of government the ofted states, was indicative the rise of the coercive power duringfederal government the wilson administration. killedthe flu epidemic 650,000 americans. -- 675,000 americans. it reduced the life expectancy of americans i a decade, that is how devastating it was. there were two things that i point to in the book that were his fault. number one, he was told by his personal physician who was a navy doctor who stop -- to stop the troop transport to europe because they were spreading the disease among the servicemen and the people of europe. it was called the spanish flu but it started in the u.s. he was told to stop these troop transports. by effectively the chief of staff of the army not to do so, and he listened even though it was only one month before the hostilities en

it looks like with barack obama becoming the first president since woodrow wilson to remain in washington, d.c. after his terms in office end, that he means to carry on some sort of opposition, if you will, create a new column to fight against president donald trump. what do you make of it? he's certainly well liked among people here in d.c. we were just talking earlier, lessons learned. lou: he's well liked. are you kidding? >> well, among beltway kinds of people. lou: you mean left wingers. >> owe kay. as someone who grew up elsewhere and lives here, i noticed there are definitely like two americas going on. d.c. is almost detached from the rest of the world. sow when i say base well liked in d.c., way mean is he's liked by the political class and the media elite. that's what i mean when i say that. lou: the establishment. >> exactly, sure. he is well liked by theee athletes in the capital which is detached from the rest of america. however, i don't know how much of an impact those efforts will have nationally. we have seen people are sick and tired of the establishment. lou: he's every

edith wilson was president woodrow wilson's second wife. for our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. >> next, a look at civil war battle tactics. then historians examine key battles. first, the september 1863 battle of chickamaga. later, the battle of spotsylvania courthouse. next, author david powell talks about civil war era military theorys, battle tactics, and formations, he describes the military manuals used and changes adopted over the course of the war. this 30 minute program was part of an event hosted by the emerging civil war blog. >> pleased to begin this evening with my friend dave powell. dave is another expert on chikamawga and chattanooga. he's putting on the finishing touches. the definitive work on the battle. for those of you who have read the books, you know those first two volumes are exhaustive and fantastic. they're a must for every single civil war library. they're so popular, the atlanta civil war roundtable was chosen twice as the recipient of the book of the year award. the only author to be s

when woodrow wilson suffered a stroke in 1919, it was edith who guarded access to the recovering president. the wilson house in washington, d.c. hosted this hour-long event. theelcome everyone to woodrow wilson house. i am the interim director. before we get started, i would like to point out the portrait on the wall. that is the lady we will be talking about tonight.

thank you, the deputy director of the kenyan institute for advanced russian studies at the woodrow wilsonr. oliver: and that is 20 minutes away from my hometown. -- oft, 2016 of ended ended many consensus forecast. we will take a look at 2017 with a lot of asset classes. this is bloomberg. julie: "what'd you miss?" 2017 forecast, looking at asset classes. i'm looking at currencies, which is expected to be muted next year, especially looking at the fourth quarter of 2017. so i looked at the consensus forecast for next year and this is what you get. this is the year to date of the performance for the yen, pound and euro. yen is at 3% versus the dollar. and the pound is down 16% versus the u.s. dollar. for all of these, the yen forecast, looking at 1.1 five. and the euro, 1.17. a little bit of a recovery for some of these. and the movement in each of these is around 1.5% from the current levels, so not a huge forecasters are predicting, although when you look at the order by quarter forecast, there could be more bouncing around. interesting, it is like for stocks, not a lot. joe: looking at

north american and british philanthropists and humanitarian spirit this was cosponsored by the woodrow wilson center and national history center. it is just under 90 minutes. >>

they're also blocking the entrance to the woodrow wilson service plaza so make sure you have gas andave coffee 'cause you can't stop right there. going to the waze app someone reporting an accident on lincoln drive so watch for that one and that's near walnut lane. it's champion rc reporting that. here are the temps. i want to show you storm tracker. you can see just left with a couple of spotty sprinkles but the roads are already wet and that's the problem matt and tam. >> thanks karen. >>> you would think the last thing you would want to snatch from a nativity scene is the baby jesus. surveillance video captured a woman doing just that in christmas city itself, bethlehem pa. it happened at city hall plaza early sunday morning. she was also seen walking a dog and driving off in a dark car believed to be a saturn ion. the jesus statue was later found in neighboring bethlehem township. police say on incoherent note was left with it. >> a north jersey mother is speaking out about losing her ton zoo to that warehouse fire in oakland california. this is some of the last video her son sho

woodrow wilson had. mr.oosevelt -- germans hold this all over the place -- germans heard this all over the place. germans didn't entirely for, they were gearing up the battle with france and england. they kind of ignored roosevelt. roosevelt made two more attempts. the first one said basically, don't attack poland. the germans responded and then ignored the second. from their point of view, they didn't have to pay roosevelt much attention. they focused to their propaganda on the real enemy. of course, roosevelt in the next month attempted to shift public opinion. but the war of words was pretty much over except hitler could not resist. germany declared war on the united states on december 11. the did not have to. the treaty obligated them to attack only if they were attacked. but hitler thought hey, why not. in middle of his long speech to reigtstag, he said, you remember, my deputies, that i gave this impertinent determine a response that was as polite as it was definite and which stop to the torrent of wor

throughout his life and he loses this contact and is a pariah for the first time in his life, put woodrow wilson, a democrat in the white house, splits the republican vote, and he is devastated. to go on a speaking tour, incredible sentiment in many books, so he is going to take another collecting trip, he gets there and he lets this friend of his -- hired on arctic explorer to plan this trip to the amazon so they are not even prepared for a collecting trip. and map and unmapped river and theodore roosevelt is going to say no to that you and this outrageously dangerous trip. >> talk a little bit about how you reconstructed the events after president garfield was shot, particularly the medical treatment he received? of the doctors had left him alone he might've lived. >> guest: right, he would have, for those who don't know garfield was shot in a train station where the national gallery now sits and to my outrage there is no plaque, no notice at all an american president was shot here but the bullet that hit him in the right side of his back didn't hit vital organs or his spinal cord. 's injuries

and i believe woodrow wilson for a very brief moment. he was of course ill at the time. >> we see the soldiers on horse, the cavalry was also there from ft. myer. and they were let by george s. patton. the main contingent of the army was the 13th engineers which was also based out of the washington, d.c. area. one of the other groups that was there were the gold star mothers. i think, allison, what was their role? >> explain who the gold star mothers are. >> right. so the gold star mothers were women who lost a child during world war i. they wore a gold star to represent that loss, and they participated both in this part of this parade and also in the ceremony by laying wreaths at the tomb of the unknown soldier. >> and there we see some of the weaponry used in the war being part of the parade honoring the world war i unknown soldier. look at those divisions of soldiers. there is really quite a showing. >> the u.s. navy and their representation. >> so every branch of the military was represented in the parade? >> right. we didn't have an

on the presidency, william, madam president, edith wilson was president woodrow wilson's second wifeand she buffered access to the president, as he recovered from a massive stroke in 1991. for our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-sp c-span.org. >>> next week, washington journal will devote the entire program to the key issues facing the new trump administration and congress, beginning monday, december 26th, we'll look at national security and defense issues, including challenges facing president-elect trump's security team in the year ahead and a closure look at the career of secretary of defense nominee, james mattis. then on december 27th, trade and jobs issue, how congress and the trump administration could change current trade laws to create or save jobs. on wednesday, december 28th, issue topic is energy and environmental policy, discuss how energy and climate issues might be impacted by the new congregation and incoming trump administration. december 29th, we'll talk about immigration and president-elect trump and new congress might change immigration policy. on f

the exit ramp right now near the woodrow wilson service air is blocked off and closed because of that. another crash on conshohocken state road and moving through delaware. the drive times look okay. 11 minutes at the most northbound from 25 and 495 with speeds into the 60s. >> thanks for that, jessica. >> a day that will live in infamy. next live to honolulu as nation pauses to remember the attacks on pearl harbor 75 years later. >> plus works will it be? world leaders? musicians, whistleblowers? what do they have in common? we'll explain the special title one of them will receive a little bit later on today. >>> today marks 15 years since the attacks on pearl harbor which killed thousands of american soldiers and pulled the united states into world war ii. >> nbc 10 national correspondent jay gray is live this morning in honolulu for more on this special commemoration today. jay? >> hey, good morning, rosemary and vai, very calm here right now in pearl harbor, hours ahead of what will be a very special national day of remembrance here. thousands expected to gather on other side of t

it's also blocking the entrance ramp to the woodrow wilson service plaza so be careful if you need gas get on the entrance ramp. storm tracker6 live double scan showing just a few raindrops left over. we had a half inch to three-quarters of an inch of rain. roads are wet. we have ponding and puddling and people hydroplaning. route 70 showers coming down, route 322,. few showers there as well. but it will stay cloudy and rather dry the rest of the day with a high of 50. matt and tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. >>> new this morning, it's been a night of protests on the campus of texas a & m university. >> united will never be divided. >> hundreds of people gathered outside of the student center last night in college station to show their outrage over richard spencer's speaking engagement. spencer leads a white nationalist organization. most of the protests were peaceful but campus police say two nonstudents were arrested. >> it's his right to say what he wants but it's also our right to my reject that type of message. >> a and m officials say they did not schedule spencer's speech, the u

although it fate in french uniform under a french flag because which had dr-- woodrow wilson didn't want them holding the flag. >> and not in battle, but in 1918, died in the flu pandemic. and the granddaughter of moses' sister married a war time capital and became one of the beloved member of the community and the father of three more doctors. and while life in the south were difficult for blacks in general for some blacks in atlanta life was very good inde indeed. a visitor culture and laept had one eye on this. it rarely punished the aspirations. atlanta was a good place for enterprising and family oriented blacks. cora horn, a new member of the battled ten came into her own during the war as a red cross organizers as a director of big brothers, big sisters federation, she was a mentor to the very young paul robeson. an appointment by the mayor of new york to the brooklyn committee. the war years were her slow years. after 1920 after she got the vote. meanwhile in 1919 she made her granddaught granddaughter. lena horne, the child of her second son ted, a lifetime member at the age of